THE BET PAGE 7 EXAMINATION
CLASS XII SEMESTER 3 EXAMINATION : THE BET PAGE 7 EXAMINATION
EXAMINATION ON THE BET
A. Answer the following questions : 1x40=40
1. What did the prisoner look like?
A) A healthy young man
B) A soldier in uniform
C) A skeleton with tight skin over bones
D) A nobleman in disguise
2. What kind of hair did the prisoner have?
A) Short and straight
B) Long curls like a woman’s
C) Bald
D) Red and curly
3. What kind of beard did he have?
A) Trimmed
B) Cleanshaven
C) Shaggy
D) Coloured
4. What was the colour of his face?
A) Pink
B) Brown
C) Yellow with an earthy tint
D) Pale blue
5. What did the prisoner’s cheeks look like?
A) Full and red
B) Hollow
C) Scarred
D) Covered with dust
6. How is the prisoner’s back described?
A) Crooked and strong
B) Long and narrow
C) Short and thick
D) Wide and muscular
7. What was dreadful to look at?
A) His eyes
B) His beard
C) His hand
D) His clothes
8. What was the prisoner doing with his hand?
A) Writing a letter
B) Propping his head
C) Holding a book
D) Eating food
9. How was the prisoner’s hair described?
A) Shiny and black
B) Cut short
C) Streaked with silver
D) Combed neatly
10. What was surprising about his appearance?
A) He looked very rich
B) He looked older than his age
C) He looked like a king
D) He looked like a watchman
11. How old was the prisoner actually?
A) Thirty
B) Forty
C) Fifty
D) Sixty
12. What was the prisoner doing at that moment?
A) Sleeping
B) Reading
C) Writing
D) Singing
13. What lay in front of the prisoner’s head?
A) A glass of wine
B) A burning candle
C) A sheet of paper
D) A key
14. What was written on the paper?
A) A poem
B) A legal document
C) Something in fine handwriting
D) A farewell note to his family
15. What did the banker think the prisoner was dreaming of?
A) His family
B) The outside world
C) The millions
D) His past
16. What did the banker consider doing to the prisoner?
A) Waking him up
B) Giving him food
C) Killing him quietly
D) Calling the lawyer
17. How did the banker think he could kill the prisoner without suspicion?
A) By stabbing
B) By suffocating with a pillow
C) By poisoning
D) By pushing him
18. Who would find no signs of violence?
A) The police
B) The public
C) The expert
D) The jailer
19. What did the banker decide to do before killing him?
A) Wake him up
B) Read what he had written
C) Close the door
D) Leave quietly
20. What time would the prisoner regain freedom?
A) Midnight
B) 11 AM
C) 12 o’clock
D) 10 PM
21. What would he regain along with freedom?
A) Money
B) Property
C) Right to associate with men
D) Right to vote
22. What did the prisoner want to do before leaving the room?
A) Burn his books
B) Say a few words
C) Meet the banker
D) Write to his family
23. Who did the prisoner say would behold him?
A) His lawyer
B) His father
C) God
D) The banker
24. How did he describe his conscience?
A) Guilty
B) Heavy
C) Clear
D) Confused
25. What did he despise?
A) Books
B) Freedom, life, and health
C) The banker
D) The lodge
26. What were called the “good things of the world” in books?
A) Nature and poetry
B) Life, health, and freedom
C) Power and fame
D) Law and order
27. How long had the prisoner studied earthly life?
A) Five years
B) Ten years
C) Fifteen years
D) Twenty years
28. What had he not seen in these years?
A) Animals and birds
B) Trees and rivers
C) Earth and men
D) His books
29. What had he drunk in books?
A) Bitter wine
B) Coffee
C) Fragrant wine
D) Milk
30. What had he sung in books?
A) Prayers
B) Sad songs
C) Lullabies
D) Songs
31. What animals had he hunted in books?
A) Bears and lions
B) Wolves and rabbits
C) Stags and wild boars
D) Deer and foxes
32. Where had he hunted them?
A) In his dreams
B) In the city
C) In the forests
D) In the garden
33. What else had he experienced in books?
A) Pain and hunger
B) Reading and sleeping
C) Love for women
D) War and death
34. How are the beauties described?
A) Real and bold
B) Pale and quiet
C) Ethereal as clouds
D) Dark and mysterious
35. Who created these beauties?
A) The banker
B) Poets and geniuses
C) Prison guards
D) Painters and sculptors
36. What did the beauties whisper?
A) Songs of grief
B) Magical words
C) Wonderful tales
D) Words of warning
37. What effect did these tales have on the prisoner?
A) They made him cry
B) They calmed him
C) They set his brain in a whirl
D) They put him to sleep
38. Where had the prisoner climbed in books?
A) Himalayas and Alps
B) Everest and K2
C) Elburz and Mont Blanc
D) Nilgiris and Vindhyas
39. What had he seen from the peaks?
A) Villages and towns
B) Rivers and forests
C) The sun rise
D) The moonlight
40. What did the sun do in the evening according to him?
A) Hide behind clouds
B) Turn dark
C) Flood sky, ocean, and mountains with gold and crimson
D) Shine only in the sky
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